tarik solution is political he's applied to become a german citizen and persuaded the green party to select him as a candidate in this year's general election never mind that the greens haven't traditionally prospered in the place tarik wants to represent just by getting into the political contest he's traveled further than any other syrian refugee in germany and if his citizenship does come through in time he is determined to fight for a seat here in september. al-jazeera at the german parliament. headlines on al-jazeera there is growing alarm over the increasing number of coronavirus cases in chile despite one of the world's leading vaccine rollouts a 3rd of the populations had its 1st jab but cases are rising on average by 5000 a day latin america editor of the soon human as well from sun. certainly the

vaccination campaign has been a model. actually it's 33 percent of the population that have at least one the majority 2 jabs at this point today the president was celebrating the $5000000.00 nations and he says that in 90 days the whole population will be inoculated the problem is it you need 80 percent of inoculation for herd immunity to kick in and what we're seeing here is exactly the opposite the surgeon cases in fact the deaths in brazil is showing no signs of slowing its record of more than $2800.00 deaths in 24 hours a record for a single day then comes the governments for health minister since the start of the pandemic prepares to take office he is actually pledged to continue the controversial policies of president john bolton already has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the virus. the european medicines agency says there's no indication the astra zeneca bank saying causes blood clots and it's firmly convinced its

benefits outweigh any risks 18 countries of now suspended their use of the jab after reports of clots in small number of recipients the u.n. says honored 49 people have now been killed since last month's coup in may and ma while a political prisoner group puts the number of 183 martial law has been imposed in many areas but protesters are defying restrictions to gather on the streets. protesters in yemen angry about poor living conditions and on paid salaries of stormed the presidential palace in the southern city of aden meanwhile the u.n. special envoy to yemen warned of a dramatic deterioration in the conflict there and gunmen on motorcycles have attacked a group of civilians in killing at least 58 people they were attacked while returning from a live stock market in bani bang good near the border with mali. the up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the latest edition of inside story is next.

another group of students has been abducted in northern nigeria while under bros i guess the government but what's behind this recent rise in kidnappings and how challenging are they to president obama this is the inside story. hello welcome to the program. nigeria school kidnappings have become a major security challenge for his government and security forces at least 700

students have been abducted in northern states is this somebody of that figure is changing every day with reports of more attacks and abductions dozens of suitors managed to escape a raid on monday while their 3 teachers were taken it happened in the northwestern could do in a state and is the 1st such attack on a primary school armed gangs locally known as bandits are suspected they usually have ransom to release the victims but the government denies bang any money president who is facing mounting criticism for the rise in violent crime. let's take a look at some of the attacks that's happened in the past few months many of the victims have since been released more than 300 boys were abducted from a school in katsina state in december in february there were mass abduction is

within 10 days that killed at least one student and earlier this month 39 citizens were reported missing arson attack on a college in the northwestern kaduna state the number of kidnappings in nigeria has been since boko haram is 2014 of the action of hundreds of schoolgirls in chibok many of them are still missing as. has been following this story for months has this update from kaduna banditry and kidnapping for ransom in northern nigeria has now become big business the biggest of course the fosters growing criminal enterprise in nigeria right here is a school where 5 days ago 39 students were kidnapped although 180 have been rescued on day one after they were taken we've gone through the school run the school and show how these infiltrators attackers launched into the school now we government of state says it's not negotiating with the criminals and it insisted that the

military option is the best option to deal with criminality in northern nigeria meanwhile parents here in kaduna street parents of students taken are still missing from this institution are still asking for the government to do whatever is necessary to bring their children back home now the problem of insecurity in northwestern niger and other parts of nigeria as well is because of a lack of proper funding of the security forces they're understaffed and they kept and of course and the motivated according to some security analysts and also another factor being outlined by certain individuals certain security analysts in nigeria is issue of negotiating with criminals to release hostages a lot of people feel that this is encouraging. more and more people to go into the criminal activity knowing full well that in the end it's either a free passage is negotiated for them or they are paid right some in huge amounts or that they can go back and we launch more sophisticated attacks on our nigeria's dealing with for many problems and this problem is really really spreading fast

across northwest niger across the rest of the north across central europe and it's moving and taking root in the south of the country as well i mean to greece for insight story. i. let's bring in our gas all of whom are joining us from nigeria in a mining edge you for his former director of nigeria state securities service legace any deli there ever says fellow at the university of edinburgh center for african studies also in abuja and here. with human rights watch warm welcome to you all mike what is happening in can do now has it become the breeding ground for armed groups and bandits well it seems. spread out fortunately it's. ringback such it's a tricky police only. equipped to your spouse it's serious.

especially and scoots. what would. work this response. in the article scoots. your core about. this if governments into norquist or for. example. in our states only. let me take sean to live you should it's part of the us we're also because of the rising we're going to fall into the leadership in. military jets which was the certified world. forever many more were it was issued. no more really. which is the number of can't do the work to. provoke the bidens. 'd so.

it gives the dresses before we go into detail with that particular issue of settlements where the bandits in the northwestern part of the country in a we have seen a pattern been established in northwestern nigeria with all those banned this moving forward attacking elementary and primary schools and the question is normally should expect the police and the army to be deployed launch a preemptive attacks gather intelligence and prevent such incident from happening which doesn't seem to be the case here. and i think old school crews are scrutiny or. security the entire security architecture of the country i think so far the only appreciable touches to the current administration's take him to the stand the son current time to from attacks

and. individuals that learns to shoot in the moves of nigeria has been so slow can change security chiefs which itself is an arm is a sign that the government's just run out of ideas on how to deal with because so far we have seen. people. who are changing security g.'s a stone little if nothing. at all to stop the son of the state of abductions and so i think the security. architecture of the country has to be looked at quite. studiously. and here to put this into perspective we're talking about the northwestern part of the country millions of people now are affected in some far could do not at sea in a supporter and. this is huge and this requires

a state initiative which doesn't seem to be the case also here. absolutely i think who we are and talk about the dynamics of their conflicts or restiveness cindy's areas but we hardly you know really put a length at the human impact beyond the abductions of the student which in essence i tried can and should be stopped but i think it's the wider impact on society you know parents who fear to send their children to school i'm state governments who have no choice but to shut down schools and there needs to be a lot of attention paid on what this will do for education for access to education in the northern part of the country where the literacy rate is already very low as you may know 93 asked the highest number out of school children anywhere in the world and about 70 percent of the 10500000 students who are. out of school in

this country are in the north so when we look at the immediate impact on famines we look at parents who are afraid for the safety and security of their children and parents who are afraid that they will never have their kids come back after they've been abducted we also look at this wider impact that is more telling for the source economic consequences for families and individuals living in that it's mind the state's mike are we talking here just about bandits controlling those areas in northwestern part of the country or are we talking about different key players now stepping in particular groups are figurative with the islamic state in the greatest the heart of the. us and al qaeda affiliate and some splinter groups over itself. well for now the

music does not remain in the established need between a. good book or around or b i cease would despondence books want to just schools would kind of lead them because look out on a few recall says i was an addition to somebody so just up was the case will be the lead that it will get i don't also forget that there was a. lot of liberal sponsibility eventually dependence the mind. was not for that. but i think the allegation is just to create a shia on by despondence to use critics government army to comment or pull out because i think if the outcome of tuning to say yes this is what we want i

would argue with someone who were saying that for us this needs to be talked to the need to be bigger should not sit well before you talk of. the most 'd long distances there are 6 accept what will they have not been able to or want to bring to say yes we have programmed our quote meant need us policy or the romans you need to be a lawyer what gets into if we have blood don't come up results you are talking in a sense this is especially children ok. and started really with from school which is dictation we need to get into the root cause of this particular problem now in the northwestern part of the country in a this house taught to years ago with a traditional fight between the dozen the farmers and man took advantage of the. chaotic situation there and the sense of it purity which was prevailing and gather

themselves and form the band is that we see it operating on the ground now what do you think should be done to tackle this particular problem it looks on the surface as if this is something about ben this doesn't seem to be the case but yes i think i think if i leave if i had done so uncertain and so to this current time of crisis that i'd probably run for president because it just metastasized into something far greater than anyone could have anticipated a few i'm a couple of a cuckoo years ago i think it was an interception. i think. about say about 5 or so years ago when it was just a single or c. was just single it was you of the conflict between the herds and the farmers then it was a bit easier address then. a couple of other hypothesis have been put

out there at the moment of a couple of other narratives in the trunk at the moment about also the intrusion off of people related or connected to accessible my identity in the north western region of nigeria and in other parts of nigeria that i've become hopes for for for abductions and and clashes as well between between herders and and and who to include indigenous and and and others and residents indigenous are these and these parts of nigeria and so i think it's become a bit more complicated not than just see between herders and france but of course some so it's you the topic of a land land of land scotty and of course under encroachments of off the sahara on our own land in in my gerry and dumb as and and major isn't middle belt

region is also definitely still remains the central the central central. topic of interest in the sun. and then comes and this is going to be my question to any it event comes illegal mining in that particular area and the rush to take control of gold mines has resulted in people establishing themselves in some sort of a not the operating on the ground so powerful so influential of the government is basically doing nothing to stop them say it but this together with the farmers heard the issue with the band this coming together no i would be able to tackle this problem. i mean you're absolutely right it is an enormous problem like you need pointed out there are no immediate solutions that come to mind at but i think 2 things for me are very important and we've seen one are going to feel in these 2 things the 1st of which is you know really ensuring accountability for

attacks against citizens whether it's by militias or it's by these powerful banded groups or it is by you know people who are these are is no mining infrastructure whatever the case you know if there is a sense that when such attacks happen whether it's kidnapping or it's cattle rustling or or it's just painted that there are arrests that people are prosecuted that communities see that justice is being done and more people are not forced to endure tick up arms to protect themselves and in essence form their own militias and and carry out other crimes i think we would see some sort of headway in in terms of debt or people will know that there are consequences for their actions and they will not continue with the sort of impunity i mean we've had over 5 mass

abductions in december that it is scary that is these are numbers that we shouldn't just brush away and it definitely is one that you are dorothy's have a duty to tuck in and of course we also have a situation where debbie's underlined point is that many of the other speakers are spoken there is a lot of our poverty in many of these communities and there's a total lack of government as in terms of provision of basic necessities and infrastructure and this often puts citizens at odds with the government there is a sense of hatred and bitterness that pushes many individuals to the brink of committing these kinds and and finding these. groups are going to come also all that a chance and she says. all right mike as a former director of nigeria's state security service would you just like you to get us closer to the mindset of the security apparatus in your country is normally

when a nation faces such a challenge the leader of the nation talks to the top generals and police officers and says this is an ultimate act of humiliation for our nation and this must stop therefore 0 tolerance what is happening in your country is totally the opposite local politicians army police officers offering bribes incentives vehicles trucks and mysteries for the bandits under one condition stop those attacks what happens the next day is more attacks on one of the russians. yeah i have. sure. that social so to speak on negotiation would be abundance but would you like if you don't know what you believe you're going to get it. wet for no use if. you live to talk about the group to be shifty. people should deal with departments now that the federal government says no more in the recission with this sort of like

i'm not asking for it's the sort of accountant or printer. that was shipping with bundles i did that's recession for the old so what we need to do you gentle secrete t.v. money. secret. drivable show that was the big fish got to be released on a drought on the tracks it gives us bargains because if you go to a relief good bargain there really is that the well reading up you can. have. the nobody wants. us all right i think you. need to push its reach under government was about the drug problem i drove for a mall. but in it for the time being there's absolutely 0 trust in the security forces in nigeria we've seen that throughout the past few months with the outcry against the cop option against the clamp down on him or vice activists

across the nation. if if the police establishment is widely seen as corrupt and inefficient understaffed doesn't have the resources to tackle this nominee why should we which said the whole oppression was should we start from the local communities i think i think it's good in the short term that might be. that might be the way the state and i think. especially considering the. current mood across the nation with of the general feeling being that. president mohammed who biharis are giving nigerians the silent treatment communities are taking on themselves to. defend themselves to protect themselves to the unprotect or to protect. life life i think property across or across the border and done i think this is something that's been going on for years on in all fairness to

the current illustration in terms of. the existence of little cool. police and units or whatever you wish to call them in the north of nigeria you have the local vigilantes and no it isn't his bar. and hears years ago just before he had been in the southwestern region we had for a p.c. the people people's our congress and we have a cousin who is as well in the east of the of the country and we're seeing lunacy not a movement not is our resurgence of these of these are no who vigilantes a century in the east now you have. security network e.s.n. and john i think what we can see moving forward is around much as. we can see

and an increase in the emergence of various atlanta and atlanta groups it's a look at the government's failed. still to come until it's of the feelings and of the protection of our life and property that niger ok i'm here to this is a president well i'm a double harry who have a unique opportunity. to move forward take the issue of reform or security apparatus put an end to use to billet to and groups a step further that didn't happen what we've seen so far series of cosmetic solutions placebo's no going deeper into the heart of the matter should we blame him personally for this massive failure which is happening now in nigeria. i mean it is happening under his leadership so there's not a lot of places to pass the ball it merely lands on his his temple and i think 1st and foremost there needs to be an honest honest discussion about the capacity of

the nigerian military and nigerian and all of the other security agencies to be able to ensure peace and security across the country and even beyond that we need to understand what are some of the what have been the cause of some of your feelings it is only by you know addressing a problem that you never find a solution but i think that the constant. the constant narrative that the president and those under him have tried to push that the military the police are at their best and they are winning the war whether it's a good surgeons in march or they're out there and the top of your game in the northwest is is false and citizens can see through that and it says a lot of trucks in him and in his in his government mike if you look at your country. i wish you could talk to me from your own past experience director of

nigeria state security service borders with which our poor us no control whatsoever but as being smuggled or the way active groups operating on the ground are figurative with all kind with boko haram with the islamic state banned this taking advantage of the situation. in launching daring attacks of the heart of some of the states in the northwest and in the some part of the country this is nigeria one of the richest nations on earth what's happening there well. it's actually me just telling someone to just tell him to sort through seeing the country because. you can't see people really. but it's this little we can do. because we don't party to the market. so paul wanted to do so on the side you remembered it because protocol which our last

remaining. member states that's it better be chilly on there without looking at you strike to check these. idiots it's good to be a bigger problem but besides. you know it international relations. or security europe's this is the we the serious car coming to nigeria i don't create that solution would be lookouts we need to. look at. our security efforts oh yes look at how it's going to get some you know. who actually most of the good of us thank you about this are yes indeed by the you know mike of the end of the day on a rich nation one of the biggest producers of oil in the african continent and all over the world with that those are the news from oil you can buy some of the most sophisticated weaponry is and also technological devices to monitor the border and

to prevent such he imitating must cannot things from happening mike and you for in italy i did and and it it won thank you very much indeed for your insight every day if you shift your time. thank you too for watching you can see the program again and it's on by visiting our website for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot goal for was last. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter 100 is a.j. inside sort of funny how she got a lot on the entire team here by foot. jumped

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be the hero world needs right. but time is i 100 hours g.m.t. i'm kemal santa maria and these are the headlines in chile there is growing alarm over the creasing number of corona virus cases despite what is one of the world's leading vaccine rollouts a 3rd of the population of had their 1st job but cases are rising by an average of 5000 a day is more from santiago with latin american edison the sea and human. certainly the vaccination campaign has been a model.